Expanding Common JARS - where to put classfiles?

[remrick]

Hello -

What is the "best practice" to use during development with JBoss when it comes to deploying class files. The idea is to be able to recompile (quickly) changes to source code and have the resulting class file be placed into a directory (where?) that JBoss will see on startup.

I tried using both the /server/all/deploy and /server/all/lib directories but they both resulted in NoClassDefError excptions.

I want to avoid having to JAR up all my classfiles and placing the JAR into the /server/all/lib directory everytime I change a single Java source.

Thanks,
-Ron

[juhalindfors]

create a SAR, deploy in exploded format, touch the META-INF/xxx-service.xml file when you have new compiled classes

[remrick]

Thanks Juha! I'll give that a try.

-Ron

[remrick]

Another question... do I need to create an MBean to do this? I simply wish to expand a JAR and have JBoss recognize and find the classes. It seems from all the doc/examples I've seen that creating a SAR (packaged or expanded) requires the use of a META-INF/jboss-service.xml file in order to specify an MBean.

I'd rather not have to require some "dummy" MBean just so JBoss can see an unpackaged JAR. I must be missing something?

Can I simply add to the JBoss classpath in the run.bat file and have JBoss look for my classes that way?

Thanks,
-Ron